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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow
Boerseun,
You seem to be looking for an answer at the "self-actualizing" level of Maslow's hierarchy. Is that a fair assessment?
I'm pretty sure you're not searching for answers to real problems on this, nor other reasons why we may struggle. Instead, you're posing to the community a "what if?"
Can you confirm, roger Roger, 10-4?
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Basically, yes.
If all resource and energy problems are solved, where will that leave the human race? Or are we simply agents of energy distribution, both trophic and non-trophic? Do we have a possible role to play in the universe that has nothing to do with the struggle for survival?
Is the actual interplay between poor and rich, the haves and the have-nots, the struggle of the poor to become rich, and the struggle of the rich to maintain and protect their interests, the epitome of humanity?
If that is indeed the case, then I think it's a sad state of affairs, indeed.
In many First World countries, where the struggle of survival has largely been won, the "dumbing down" of society, together with raging obesity testifies that it might, indeed, be the case. Once you're in no immediate danger of dying from hunger, it seems humanity settles down to a slow simmer of sloth. Obviously, there are exceptions, and plenty of them. But a thousand in a population of millions, is pitifully few, and telling of the average.
Basically, what I'm asking, is if there was nothing to worry about, what'll you do? And what will humanity do? No Global Warming, no famine in the Third World, no pending war, no racism, no sexism, no -ism of any kind, where will that leave us? How will we bide our time?
